I agree with most of what you say the public are financing all these projects yet after a 10 year cessation only shows a slight improvement in stocks. Until they face the facts that they are the hypocrites who are depleting the stocks there will not be an improvement on paper because it is their effort and catch statistics that form a major part of the case for a NLO and it won't be in their interests to change the format.

I'd like to put this on record when all the netting effort has been ended through NLO's the stock figures will show a remarkable improvement allowing a full exploitation by rods and that is the cynical intention of these orders. NLO's are being used to get netsmen off the rivers by making it impossible to function it is getting rid of nets by stealth.

#106: Orri - There are nets poaching salmon rivers up and down great britain, including the Tamar in various locations. Add more so called "legal" netting, catastrophe!! stop the license and catch the poachers, time to stop this carnage before its too late